Entrepreneur Capability in Pekalongan City: Issues of Gender, Local Culture and Anti Plagiation Spirit for Creative Community

Pekalongan City is the first creative city in Indonesia to be included in the world creative city list by UNESCO in Craft and Folk Art category. The creativity aspect as the motor of the creative industry in Pekalongan will refer to culture, technology and intellectual property as a strategic driving force in the industry. Another aspect is the issue of gender and entrepreneurial capabilities in line with the needs of the entrepreneur to develop the idea of a product that must always be renewable as a prerequisite of living in the creative economy. The development of two new variables in the creative economy paradigm in the context of entrepreneurial capabilities other than innovative, proactive and risk-taking variables is the anti plagiarism spirit of design and the unique value of the product. The direction of this paper is to know whether there is any influence of gender in its contribution to performance aspect, commitment to cultural preservation, and anti plagiarism spirit and unique product development in order to maintain Pekalongan existence as creative city of UNESCO. This study has a sample of 45 men and 45 women as entrepreneurs and creative industry business in Pekalongan City. The statistical approach using Chi Square analysis with conclusion there is no relationship between gender with the three aspects of research in the form of business performance, cultural commitment and anti plagiarism spirit. In the analysis using Cross Tab, provide description that there is gender equation of way of thinking and strategy of survival and commitment between both capability of entrepreneur of man and woman in Pekalongan